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Caterpillar Women Caterpillar.com > Company > Employees & Retirees Boasted Basketball Skills page 4 CONNECTING OUR GLOBAL CATERPILLAR FAMILY TODAY SPRING 2015 Caterpillar One of Top- Where in the World... Scoring Companies in Spotting Caterpillar Around the World The Sustainability Yearbook Not only was Caterpillar named to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index last year, it also received the Industry Mover distinction for excellent sustainability performance. The Sustainability Yearbook is the world’s most comprehensive publication on corporate sustainability. To be listed in the Yearbook, companies must be within the top 15 percent of their industry and must achieve a score within 30 percent of their industry leader’s score. Furthermore, within the top 15 percent of each industry, the company that has achieved the largest proportional improvement in its sustainability performance compared to the previous year is named the RobecoSAM Industry Mover. Caterpillar is proud to 930K at Coronado Beach, California be honored with this distinction. We’ve taken up a new call to use predictive diagnostics platform for MESSAGE FROM DOUG action: Think inside and outside our products. the machine. We know what it Think about how our industry will HELLO means to think inside the machine, change when customers have mobile, and we have a 90 year history of easy-to-use, diagnostic information that EVERYONE! innovations like the diesel engine, lets them shift from a reactive “repair We kicked-off 2015 by the elevated sprocket, autonomous after failure” mode to a proactive “repair ramping up our historic mining trucks and dynamic gas before failure” stance. tradition of leading industry blending to show for it. The Uptake agreement, along with even innovation. In February, our “We have the best Today’s competitive marketplace more internal innovation, demonstrates leadership team gathered engineers and and the great opportunities that exactly how we intend to disrupt our in Atlanta for our annual innovators in the exist in the Internet of Things industry, and how we are moving quickly Leadership Summit. For three business, and they mean we are also thinking outside to prevent traditional or non-traditional days we talked and learned are getting it done the machine—about using data competitors from coming between us and about the amazing changes every day. ” analytics and big data to provide our dealers and customers. ahead in technology and what new services and products our We have the best engineers and they mean for Caterpillar. We also had our customers want and need. Along those innovators in the business, and they are first “Innovation Expo” where some of our lines, we signed a technology and getting it done every day. I am incredibly most creative colleagues demonstrated predictive analytics agreement with excited about what this more than 20 innovative products and Uptake, an entrepreneurial Chicago means for our customers approaches that will help shape our future. company that will develop an easy-to- and our future! Caterpillar Announces Grand Opening of First Data Innovation Lab In today’s age of the opportunities this technology, data touches lab—and forthcoming labs everyone and drives in global locations—will progress across the globe. provide. At Caterpillar, Data Shocking amounts of data Innovation Labs will lead are generated every day to faster, better and more from each sale, GPS point, efficient innovation than social media post, web ever before, allowing the search and countless other company to deliver even sources all over the world. better results to customers. We’re in the midst of a With high-velocity global data revolution, and analysis of Big Data, companies that understand research and development and leverage the value of professionals can tap into Big Data will be the ones insights about customers’ to succeed. current and future needs, While Caterpillar has opportunities to optimize always been a company Caterpillar’s processes and that places a premium global trends that drive on data-driven decision At Caterpillar, Data Innovation Labs will lead to faster, better and more efficient innovation technological change. making, we’re upping our than ever before, allowing the company to deliver even better results to customers. Staffed with world-class game. February 19, we talent from critical fields celebrated the grand opening of our first Data Innovation Lab, (statistics, computer science, operations research, engineering, located in Research Park at the University of Illinois (U of I) in etc.), the labs will also tackle experimental and high-risk challenges Champaign, Illinois. that standard practices can’t address, allowing the company to The U of I Vice Chancellor for Research, Dr. Peter Schiffer, and identify and explore breakthrough and disruptive opportunities Caterpillar Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Gwenne through data analysis. Henricks, welcomed guests at the grand opening, both expressing At the grand opening, Henricks summarized, “This lab will foster excitement about the lab as another positive link in the long and rich real-world innovation at the dynamic intersection of technological relationship between the university and Caterpillar. Dr. Schiffer said, and cultural change in the world, giving us the ability to turn customer “Caterpillar has been a tremendous partner with the U of I. Ours is and market data into valuable information for the growth of our a strategic relationship that helps drive success at our respective business and our customers’ businesses.” institutions. The Research Park is a natural fit for a tech-focused This grand opening is only the beginning. Caterpillar will be company like Caterpillar, and this new innovation lab will leverage launching more labs in global locations, harnessing the power of Illinois strengths in computing and data analysis in exciting ways.” worldwide analytics expertise and tapping into data-driven insights Henricks echoed Dr. Schiffer’s thoughts and went on to explain that propel success. CATERPILLAR NAMED A TOP 50 COMPANY IN ROBOTICS Robotics Business Review (RBR) unveiled its fourth annual RBR50 list, naming Caterpillar one of the most noteworthy companies in the global robotics industry for 2015. The RBR is the largest, most comprehensive online robotics news and information resource. Companies listed on the RBR50 are selected based on their innovations, groundbreaking applications, commercial success and potential, and represent many different levels and facets of the robotics ecosystem. This international compilation spans 11 countries and in addition to the large conglomerates, 20 percent of the list is comprised of lesser-known startups. The RBR50 list is dynamic, with robotics companies entering and leaving on an annual basis, thus creating a list that is indicative of where the global robotics industry as a whole is headed. Other companies on the list include Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Komatsu and Google. “Caterpillar has long recognized the value robotic technologies can bring to our customers when integrated into our products and solutions,” said Lou Balmer Millar, director of Research and Advanced Engineering. “Being named one of the top 50 companies in the global robotics industry is great recognition of our successful history of innovation, as well as the commercial success of our semi-autonomous and fully autonomous products and features.” For the full list of companies on the RBR50 List, http://roboticsbusinessreview.com/rbr50. 2 SPRING 2015 CATERPILLAR PRIDE: Panama Employees Showcase Company Pride in Local Communities From Strains and Sprains to Improved Ergonomics When thinking about work-related injuries, sprains and strains may not come to mind. But for Caterpillar’s Material Handling & Underground Division in East Peoria, Illinois, (MH&U-EP) identifying poor ergonomics was a major issue. “We identified that 25 percent of all first aids and 50 percent of all recordable injuries were related to sprains and strains,” said environmental, health and safety (EHS) professional Josh Labeda. “We realized Kim Hauer, Vice President of Human Services Division, handing out gift bags at the we weren’t doing the Caterpillar Panama Family & Friends Weekend best job proactively We’re already seeing identifying or managing people capitalize on these The Panama Caterpillar Facility recently hosted the first Family & Friends ergonomic risk.” tools and identify the risks Weekend, providing an opportunity for employees to showcase the facility and A multidisciplinary and appropriate abatement. share the Caterpillar brand and culture with family and loved ones. 6 Sigma team made up “This event was key to increasing our brand visibility throughout the of EHS, workers compensation, medical, engineering, Panama communities, as well building a sense of pride in our employees by logistics and production employees spent a year showcasing what a great place to work Caterpillar is,” said Sue Parcells, Panama HR manager, HSD. examining the facility’s processes and injuries. The highlight of the event was the They consulted Dr. Don Bloswick, an expert and Cat® Product Demo Show in the professor in engineering and occupational therapy at Demonstration Learning Center. For many the University of Utah. Led by 6 Sigma Black Belt Karla Panama employees, this was the first time Lowery, the team’s next steps were examining they had the opportunity to see the action- daily work, conducting surveys and using packed demonstration. comprehensive ergonomic